Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Reed Grenci is no stranger to big drug busts. He has made a number of them in his patrol duties on Interstate 80 — a major illegal-drug-transportation route — including a bust four years ago that netted 18 bales of marijuana worth about $600,000.

On Monday, Grenci made another big arrest, this one involving nearly a half-pound of pure heroin believed to be worth about $250,000 on the street. Arrested were two New York City men, who were traveling in the car that was transporting the heroin.

The heroin was in vaccum-sealed containers.

Grenci has been specially trained to look for indicators of criminal and terrorist activity while conducting routine patrols. He did not elaborate what caused him to be suspicious about the vehicle in question and its occupants, but a drug-sniffing dog confirmed his suspicions that the men in the car were involved in more than their stated trip to Sharon to buy auto parts.

The arrest took place four miles east of the Butler County line. Had Grenci not been so alert, it is not out of the question that some of the heroin might eventually have ended up in this county.

Grenci is charged with an important responsibility and, based on his successes, he is a great asset to the state police anti-drug mission.

Some towns repeat their community events year after year, with few if any changes. They do so even if those events have become tired or boring because of a lack of new attractions and even if attendance is continuing to dwindle.To its credit, Seven Fields is not one of those towns. It has decided to revamp its Community Day celebration, even moving it to a different time. Instead of being held on Labor Day, it appears that the event, which might be expanded to a two- or three-day celebration, will be held instead in May. And, instead of just a petting zoo, pool games and catered food, the newly designed event is to feature carnival rides and other attractions.What will remain the same is that the celebration will be aimed at honoring the community's heritage.Tom Smith, borough manager, said, "I think it has the ability to be a memorable event for the residents as well as attract other people from other municipalities."But most importantly, the upcoming celebration won't be tired. And, it will be the product of borough officials having listened to borough residents' views."This is just a change of pace after many residents told us the annual community day is getting old and that they'd like something different," Smith said. The residents have spoken and, to borough officials' credit, they have responded.

New Federal Reserve rules aimed at protecting Americans from sudden hikes in credit card interest rates that will go into effect Feb. 22 have been touted as a great protection for card users.The rules would have been a greater protection if the time frame for the rules to go into effect were not so wide. It's given credit card companies time to implement changes in terms that will hurt card users more than they already have been hurt by the companies' greed, while the companies still will remain in compliance with the new regulations.In the days ahead, customers of the card companies should pay attention to the change-in-terms notices they will receive — and go back and read again those that they've already received. The Federal Reserve and Congress knew the ramifications of a big time window, but they looked the other way regarding taking a tough stance that would benefit card customers rather than the banks and card companies.The government showed again that it is more beholden to the interests of banks and credit card companies than to the cardholders.The new rules, which generally prohibit rate increases during the first year after an account is open and dictate that after the first year, companies must provide customers a 45-day notice before increasing rates, have been heralded by Kenneth Clayton of the American Bankers Association as a "new era for America's credit card customers."It would have been a better new era if the new rules would truly have clamped down on the credit card companies' greedy practices.The new rules generally will ban rate increases on existing credit card balances, also will require that the card companies obtain a customer's consent before charging fees on transactions that exceed their credit limits, and forbid companies from issuing credit cards to people under age 21 unless they or a parent or other co-signer can make the payments.Those rules are good but they would have been better if the card companies had not had so much time to react to the rules before they go into effect.It's right to ponder how officials at the Federal Reserve and members of Congress can look in the mirror without feelings of guilt over having opted for a time window that benefits the card companies instead of the people for whom protections were necessary.When will the people ever come first?